of the “sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity,” found in the first chapter of Isaiah, might have been repeated against Jerusalem at the time this Apocalypse was written, and, in fact, the twenty-third chapter of Matthew is virtually such an arraignment by the Lord himself. A harlot in the prophetical sense is one who has broken the vows and bonds of the marriage covenant by any infidelity to the obligations of such union. The idolatries of the older Jerusalem were one of her most infamous offenses